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United Airlines severs ties with NRA, continues to contribute to Planned Parenthood

United Airlines severs ties with NRA, continues to contribute to Planned Parenthood

United Airlines cut ties with the National Rifle Association after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, but continues to donate to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.

In a tweet on Saturday, the airline said it notified the NRA “that we will no longer be offering a discounted rate to their annual meeting” and asked to be removed from the gun-rights group’s website.

United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website.
— United Airlines (@united) February 24, 2018

United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website.

United Airlines is listed as a company that matches gifts to Planned Parenthood, according to 2ndVote, a conservative corporate watchdog.

The airline also supports March of Dimes, a nonprofit whose mission is to “help moms have full-term pregnancies and research the problems that threaten the health of babies.” March of Dimes has contributed to Planned Parenthood in the past and supports fetal tissue research, but says it is neutral on the issue of abortion.

Fox News contributor Guy Benson called out United for continuing to support Planned Parenthood.

Hey @united, I’m an extremely loyal 1k customer. You’ve now severed ties w/ the NRA at the urging of an online mob, yet you maintain ties with Planned Parenthood, the most prolific ender of children’s lives in America, by far. Are you actively trying to chase away my business? https://t.co/eArS3fiF2c
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 24, 2018

Hey @united, I’m an extremely loyal 1k customer. You’ve now severed ties w/ the NRA at the urging of an online mob, yet you maintain ties with Planned Parenthood, the most prolific ender of children’s lives in America, by far. Are you actively trying to chase away my business? https://t.co/eArS3fiF2c

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AFAIK, United severed ties with ground-reality donkeys-years ago (yes, I’m somewhat biased against it since I received a ridiculously-high quote in 1997 for an Atlanta to Calgary fare — 4+ times those of Delta and American, and thrice that of anathema “control” Air Canada), no surprise.

Those gun avoidance hypocrites at United need only research their own history of Support of CIA sponsored Clandestine “Air America” gun running in Cambodia via their merger with Continental Airlines and Robert F (Six Gun) Six. known as “The Maverick” of the Airline industry, married to Ethyl Merman and Audrey Meadows of the Honeymooners fame, and close Friend of Ronald Reagan and supporter of Colorado Football. I worked there for 22 years and met them both whose lasting image of strong manhood remained to cultivate the example of manhood in my own spirit. But that was when real men who were real leaders ran things like Government and Airlines and protected the innocent, not the frightened snowflake sheep of today who support the destruction of the innocent and promote the weak image of surrender they give to our psychologically neutered young men of today.

Oh how I love United Airlines. The CEO bans discounts for NRA members who are 99.9% responsible and yet sends money for abortions / murder to Planned Murderhood. This shows one what criminals the less than animals on the left are. I will never fly United Airlines and the left wing loon / communist CEO can go to you know where!

The frightened politically confused United management just brought a “Sword of Damocles” political knife to a business decision gun fight,,,,,and lost. Stick to what you know best which is flying people, and leave the political indoctrination of people decisions to THE PEOPLE. Why cut off one of your customer based political arms to spite your soon to be unprofitable business face. Just who is running this company these days? I doubt they had any military Service flight experience.

On top of their boycott of NRA members, their support of killing babies, do we forget of all the paying personnel problems had with United personnel on the ground and in the air? I haven’t flown Unites since 1973 when the military paid for a roundtrip from Baltimore to Chicago and Honolulu and back. That was a fair flight, and since then, when I booked with them a year later, they went on strike at the last minute, and they had my baggage which was not delivered in more than a week to me when on temporary duty…Never again since then, and never missed them…

United doesn’t have to donate to the NRA but we don’t have to fly United. The door swings both ways. Every society is judged by how it treats it’s weakest most helpless members. Evidently United supports murder of the innocent and is against GOD given rights.

gideonrockwell, I agree that our society will be judged on how we treat our helpless and weak.
United seems to blame the NRA for the Florida shootings. The NRA is made up of 99.9% of some of the best, law abiding citizens that I know. If you need help for anything they will give you the shirt off their back! They are an American grass roots organization to help protect your
2nd Adm Rights. Largest group to promote gun safety, has the Shield Program for help in keeping our schools safe, promotes Hunter Safety Classes, and so much more that I would not
have the room to write it all here. Check out their web site……As for United supporting the mass murder of innocent babies…I can only pray that they will repent. I will NEVER use United again! God Bless America!

united airlines – you are idiots!! The leftists, communists, progressives, demoncraps want to blame everyone except themselves for creating this mess over the last 50-60 years. And you support planned parenthood (how can u b a parent when you kill your baby) who have been part of the extermination of over 50 million (yes million) babies. Mostly black babies. Chew on that black population! Most of you support demoncraps at election time as we know they started the KKK, worship Sanger who hated blacks, and allow your race to be exterminated. Wake up. As for united…..I and many I know will never use your airlines again. Bye, Bye!!

UA can donate to whomever they wish but there’s a price to pay ! Personally I feel companies that serve the public should stay out of politically charged issues. Be it the NRA or Planned Parenthood! One could argue that the NRA kills no one while PP kills thousands every year! The irony here is that no single organization does more to promote gun safety than the NRA. The particulars of the tragic FL school shooting is that every single agency that could have prevented this shooting from even happening FAILED to do their job. Using the NRA as a scapegoat is the left’s way of avoiding the real issues and politicizing this once again attempting to take our guns away! The real danger facing this country is people are becoming too easily swayed to have their individual freedoms taken away. Then”collective” that the left sees in our future, is about as far away from the ideals our founding fathers saw for this country!

As I’ve been saying for a while now, Gary M, NOBODY will have to STEAL the liberties of these brainwashed lib-toon snowflakes–they will WILLINGLY give them away–and, sadly, ours along with them!

But really, how illogical and STUPID is it to want to “punish” the NRA–who, I hasten to point out, has not killed anybody–over murdered children, then donate money to Planned Parenthood so they can murder more babies? And PP does not kill “thousands” each year. They kill MILLIONS. of helpless infants. For the life of me, I don’t see how United Airlines can POSSIBLY believe this is a “morally superior” choice!

In a competitive environment, United terminated a program that offered it a strategic advantage in attracting a market segment to use their service.

I will submit this to the faculty for MBA and Marketing programs at Eastern Michigan (EMU) as I am curious how the students will defend the decision. It may be the program is small enough, it is an economic wash. (e.g the Spring break crowd is not offended and is a larger market segment.)

it will be curious if any recognize the long term implications of publicly appearing single out to reject customer segments..

nuts2you, ask Hollywood about that. They have chosen to single out and VILIFY Pres. Trump and Trump supporters, thereby alienating and insulting about half the potential audience for their products. Coincidentally, 2017 was among, if not THE worst for movie box office receipts in history. Boy, they sure showed US, didn’t they!

Which is what i most often do. BUT i first see if my local library will be getting it, and if i can get in and ‘reserve it’ that way, before say 500+ other people on only 40 copies’ also do it, i do that. Heck the last big one i did, there was 800+ people reserving a copy out of 140 copies.. So less than 1 in 6.. Got it two weeks after it came out. NO COST.

In response, I have severed my relationship with United and will no longer use them. I will not submit to the Communist party or their tactics. I do not support the establishment of a one-party totalitarian state.

What happens if a United Airlines plane filled with liberals crashes in the Atlantic Ocean?
a) Nothing who cares
b) A good start
c) Were there any seats open
d) no blonde conservatives with big bubs were on board I hope
e) all of the above

Hypocrites Exposed. Reduced to the basic facts, United Airlines has broadcast their preference for killing unborn babies while attacking an organization dedicated to safety and responsibility. Since attacking the NRA will make no difference to the inner city gang shootings that are the true issue, why attack them? Perhaps United hates the Constitution. Perhaps United hates Patriots. Perhaps United hates conservative thought. Their motivation is especially difficult to determine since their actions are absurdly illogical. No matter your hidden motivation, United; your actions are clearly displayed. Goodbye United, there are many other airlines to choose from.

Actually since 911 some pilots in the cockpit are armed and lethal. If you can trust them with your life to fly you at 30,000 ft., I assure you that they can be trusted with gun in cockpit, which prior to 911 was formerly a gun-free zone,,,which was just a terrorist “Open season for hunting” invitation.

As per a website known as Airsave dot com, United has had 11 recorded air crashes, and American 13.. The next nearest is delta at 4! So united has had almost 3 TIMES what united has had..
Sprint, west jet, southwest, jetblue, Horzion, hawaiian, freedom, airtransat and Allegiant have all had 0 crashes…

NEWS FLASH:
Call Delta and United to express your thoughts.
Obviously the NRA deplores the Nut Jobs that shoot up schools or any other venue .
Point of reference, Planned Parent Hood kills 1,100 on average each day or over 400,000
babies a year.

Delta actually answers the phone and are very nice to hear your concerns, be polite.
United your just going to get an answer machine, not surprised.
Media Relations Dept’s.
Delta 404 715 2554
United 872 825 8640

Its getting to where there’s very few airlines LEFT i consider worthy of giving my business too. Delta, united and Southwest all lost it over all those anti-customer issues from last year. I’ve never flown so far north i needed to use alaskan air. Same with Hawaiian airlines..
Don’t remember using frontier.

What irks me. i spent half an hr earlier yesterday, looking at how many rental car companies there are in the US, and with only 3 exceptions all are linked or owned by enterprise/avis/hertz.. So boycotting those 3 means all their subsidiaries are also gone. AND those 3 that are left, all don’t serve the midwest…
So if i ever need a rental car, i gotta go with a ‘local branch’ with more than likely is costlier AND won’t allow interstate travel…

Does it seem a WEE bit hypocritical to anybody ELSE that United is ditching the NRA over the deaths of children, while it funnels money to Planned Parenthood who MURDERS BABIES? Why are children in schools more “valuable” and worthy of protection than helpless little babies?

Avoid doing business with any of the companies that jumped the gun to boycott for gun control that will achieve absolutely nothing! What will they do the day after the banning of guns when another horrific killing of 60 students and the driver of a school bus get blown away by a bomb!
It’s not the gun stupid, it’s the mind of the killer, deal with it!

Interestingly enough, Delta was heavily lobbying for restoring a sales tax exemption on Jet A at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. There was an exemption before, but it had expired and the exemption was going to be restored for ALL airlines at HJIA by the tax bill working its way through the Georgia Legislature last week. After Delta’s announcement of their dropping the NRA discount relationship and some heat applied by a couple of legislators running for Governor this Fall, the GA Legislature pulled the sales tax exemption wording from the tax revision bill, passed the bill without the tax exemption, and it was signed into law today. Financial analysts stated that the additional taxes paid annually by DAL alone would be around $40 Million. I hope Delta’s board cans all the execs who participated in the decision to dump the NRA discount.